By deejayoh on November 5, 2007
I ran across this very interesting analysis of the California real estate market by Goldman Sachs this weekend (PDF alert!). It is the author’s contention that in the past, changes real estate prices could be explained by two factors: disposable income and interest rates. They then go on to demonstrate, as [...]
| Tagged fundamentals, OFHEO, predictions
By deejayoh on November 4, 2007
I picked up this article off of The Housing Bubble this morning and thought it was worthy of a blog post. This is probably the least rosy depiction of the local real estate market I have seen from any of our local MSM outlets in the past few years.
Selling a house? What to do now
With plenty [...]
| Tagged Everett, Everett_Herald, Snohomish
By deejayoh on October 22, 2007
I’ve noticed a few posts in the comments and over in forums regarding inventory levels – which appear to be flat to down over the last couple of weeks. Given these I thought it was worth laying out a historical perspective on inventory levels.
If you’ve delved into the Seattle Bubble spreadsheet, you know that The [...]
| Tagged inventory, Statistics
By deejayoh on October 20, 2007
I ran across this chart about top online advertisers, and thought it was kind of interesting in light of events in the real estate market.
I would assert that several of the top 10 are either directly or tangentially related to the real estate boom.
#2 – Experian – credit reports. Not sure why they spend [...]
| Tagged advertising
By deejayoh on October 16, 2007
Continuing The Tim’s trend of quick posts, I thought I would add this to the flurry of news today. King5 ran a news piece last night that is summarized in this article, entitled Home sellers upping incentives in crowded market
The piece quotes Reba Haas, one of the contributors over at Rain City Guide. [...]
| Tagged anecdote, King5, population, real_estate_professionals
By deejayoh on October 8, 2007
Many of you may have read my previous post that tied the performance of the Case-Shiller index to the growth in inventory. Since then, I’ve done a bit more tweaking of that model – which has proven to be reasonably consistent with actual results over the past few months. Better on the YoY figure than [...]
| Tagged Case-Shiller, predictions
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